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But someone will say, How do the dead come back? and with what sort of body do they come?

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Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

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And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant

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But God gives it a body, as it is pleasing to him, and to every seed its special body.

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All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one flesh of men, another of beasts, another of birds, and another of fishes.

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And there are bodies of heaven and bodies of earth, but the glory of the one is different from that of the other.

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There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars for the glory of one star is different from that of another.

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So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death it comes again in life:

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It is planted in shame it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

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It is planted a natural body it comes again as a body of the spirit. If there is a natural body, there is equally a body of the spirit.

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And so it is said, The first man Adam was a living soul. The last Adam is a life-giving spirit.

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But that which is natural comes before that which is of the spirit.

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The first man is from the earth, and of the earth: the second man is from heaven.

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Those who are of the earth are like the man who was from the earth: and those who are of heaven are like the one from heaven.

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And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.